Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.